– Overview – 

This SSHRC-funded project is headed up by Matthew Paterson at the University of Ottawa. Steven Bernstein and Matt Hoffmann are co-investigators. The project seeks to understand how the idea of carbon markets emerged and came to dominate the global response to climate change. We are exploring the network of individuals that participated in the early carbon markets and how they shaped the diffusion of this idea more broadly. We are also undertaking a comparative analysis of carbon markets in Canada, the US, and Australia to understand how carbon markets developed in different political settings. This project has produced three significant journal articles, a number of conference papers, and has multiple publications in the pipeline.